Mike Bloomberg Is Defending His Big Soda Ban On Twitter... And He's Getting Slammed By The Publichttp://www.businessinsider.com/mike-bloomberg-is-defending-his-big-soda-ban-on-twitter-2012-6/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Fri, 18 Aug 2017 02:02:44 -0400Michael Brendan Doughertyhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd380d6bb3f7ee58000019Mechanical GripMon, 04 Jun 2012 18:34:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd380d6bb3f7ee58000019
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Now we are talking!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd37a3eab8eadc43000021Mechanical GripMon, 04 Jun 2012 18:33:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd37a3eab8eadc43000021
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Please... Have you ever thought that if these people drinking this bilge water by the barrel took better care of themselves -- they wouldn't need to take $30 ibuprofen etc etc?
Health care is broken. You are correct. But lobbying (yes I said lobbying as in lobbyist for the sugar, fast food, corn syrup industries) Are not going to bring the cost of ibuprofen down because some moron drinks 96OZs of Coca Cola every day...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd356eeab8ea4a44000002Mechanical GripMon, 04 Jun 2012 18:23:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd356eeab8ea4a44000002
Meant for the jamesusnvet dudehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd351eecad044f2b000022Mechanical GripMon, 04 Jun 2012 18:22:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd351eecad044f2b000022
Dude are you for real? This health care epidemic and explosion in costs which could bankrupt America -- can happen anywhere? That is one of the most specious arguments I've ever heard.
And FYI
"Your right to buy land and build on it could infringe upon my “right” to see an unobstructed natural view."
Apparently you've never purchased land or built a house in areas with hills. Nearly every community in the United States of America that has view sites, has rules, regulations and ordinances so that some idiot doesn't build a three story house across the street from yours blocking the natural view. It's been that way for 100 years.
I'd bet $1,000,000 that if you found your dream piece of property to retire on, then some yokel decided to build a vacation home that looked like the Parthenon across the street blocking YOUR view -- YOU would scream like you had the trots after eating a burrito laced with ten habaneros...
This is the problem with all these "personal liberty" types. They have no clue to how your liberty has a drastic impact on my liberty...
Geezus H Christos people... Where do you people come up with this shit?????http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd2ac5ecad04761a000016STANMon, 04 Jun 2012 17:38:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd2ac5ecad04761a000016
I guess I'm against the ban on sodas because it means that there should also be a ban on bottles of beer, bottles of wine, liquor, milk, iced tea orange juice, lemonade, grape juice, cranberry juice, Gatorade, or any other drink that is not water, yet comes in a container that is larger than 16 ounces. All of them have a caloric content that comes from sugar--are all of them now to be regulated by size? Why is the ban limited to Big Gulps? What about 32 ozs of Diet Coke? Must that be banned, too? Is this another "Save the Children" argument being used as cover for policies that are engineered to totally control adult behavior?
The obesity costs more argument is a loser, too. Most fat people I know have good paying jobs and insurance--in other words, they pay their own way. How this cost is somehow transferred to people who are not fat is beyond me. If THAT were your argument, then it could be said that women and children need to be banned, too. The healthcare costs for women and children outweighs men's healthcare costs by triple; god forbid if she's a fat woman who smokes. The "obesity costs more" argument is a loser, too.
The bottom line is that Bloomberg is trying to be your nanny again. You can't smoke in NYC--next you won't be able to have a Coke or be rude or drink in a restaurant. This is the next wave of Prohibition, pure and simple and the root of Prohibition is always some jerk telling you to live more like they do or else. That is the unfree-est freedom I ever heard about.
Gimme a cherry Slurpee Big Gulp and a box of Marlberrys please. I'm gonna smoke a couple while I slurp down my 64OZ of freedom.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd233decad041810000003orlandopoliticsnetMon, 04 Jun 2012 17:06:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd233decad041810000003
Gotta feel awful for the intern running that Twitter account.
<a href="http://orlandopolitics.net/2012/04/26/herman-cain-campaigns-with-todd-long-in-orlando/" target="_blank">http://orlandopolitics.net/2012/04/26/herman-cain-campaigns-with-todd-long-in-orlando/</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd2193eab8ead315000010really???Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:58:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd2193eab8ead315000010
You're absolutely right...Big interest, pharmaceuticals, and product manufactures have no hand in the fact that the public is being raped by outrages prices; Not to mention the fact that hospitals charge about $30 for two tabs of ibuprofen....They are businesses that the government enables and THAT is why healthcare is so expensive... NOT because people drink to much soda-get real buddy.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd1f0eecad04010700000cjamesusnvetMon, 04 Jun 2012 16:48:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd1f0eecad04010700000c
Ah your comment above was a little.... conflicting. Especially that last line. I agree education not prohibition is the way to fight the ills that plague our society .http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd1d53eab8eaca0a000013JP32Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:40:51 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd1d53eab8eaca0a000013
Bloomberg is absolutely right on this. There is a new study out in Nature showing how the body fails to detect and compensate for extra calories in liquids, but does so very efficiently for solids.
<a href="http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v24/n6/full/0801229a.html" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v24/n6/full/0801229a.html</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd18876bb3f73824000001fred-sofMon, 04 Jun 2012 16:20:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd18876bb3f73824000001
I agree with everything you wrote. I think you read my comment too quickly and did not read where I said I did not believe in a law imposing drink size limits, but I wouldn't mind an ad campaign educating people as to it's health risk, thereby hoping people will make better eating/drinking choices. We have ad campaigns telling people the danger of drinking or smoking while pregnant , it is now a law , but an education campaign, because of this campaign many people decide not to drink or smoke while pregnant . This is what i said I preferred .http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd15c5ecad04ac76000002jamesusnvetMon, 04 Jun 2012 16:08:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd15c5ecad04ac76000002
You could however extend that to almost any area of life, and there is where the problem lies. Your right to buy land and build on it could infringe upon my “right” to see an unobstructed natural view. Your right to free speech might infringe on my “right” to peace and quiet. Your right to raise a family costs me my hard earned money in taxes that go to schools and youth programs.
You can’t go around being a food and drink Nazi just because you argue it costs you money. Are you going to force people into a workout program? Are you going to limit what types of food and drink people can buy via a ration card? Are you going to throw people in jail (or a forced weight loss camp as it were) for being overweight? At what point does it end?
It may be unhealthy but if people want to be fat and buy 64 oz sodas then that is their right. You can’t dictate how people live their lives for the “good of society” . This country was founded on personal liberty, and if you want to weigh 300lbs and smoke and drink, I am sure Ben Franklin would not have objected.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd01c969bedd7d3100005dtrecerMon, 04 Jun 2012 14:43:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd01c969bedd7d3100005d
An ambiguous statement: Whose liberalism? The liberalism of the mayor's edict? It's not all that "liberal" in the classic sense of the term. Or the liberalism of consumers who are focusing all of their historical freedoms on that heavy, cool, glistening monster paper cup? Liberalism is actually more the latter, since it's the philosophy of personal freedom and unfettered self-expression. But this is also the kind of liberalism that is leading Western society to its own narcissistic grave. Nothing matters but my right to buy a big drink that is killing me, and to hell with the consequences for me or anyone else. (Assisted suicide anyone?) It's all part and parcel of the adolescent tea party rebellion: give me what's mine, now! Take your hands off what's mine, now! No, I won't pay any taxes. No, I won't negotiate.
Picture a toddler screaming because his mother has taken away the poison he's been eating. I'll side with the mother on this one.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd004cecad042850000001fred-sofMon, 04 Jun 2012 14:37:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fcd004cecad042850000001
Well saidhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fccffc1ecad042a4900001btrecerMon, 04 Jun 2012 14:34:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fccffc1ecad042a4900001b
Forget the global economy, education, debt, political gridlock, guns, tobacco, etc. What Americans care the most passionately about is their right to purchase an obscenely large soft drink that is costing them billions and billions of dollars in healthcare.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fccff3869bedd572b000014fred-sofMon, 04 Jun 2012 14:32:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fccff3869bedd572b000014
I agree with Bloomberg, not a law imposing drink size limits , but a ad campaign educating consumers the health risk from drinking too much high sugar drinks. Most people cry about how much taxes we pay to the government, but do we realize how much obesity cost us in tax dollars and health insurance cost? This money comes out of yours and mine pockets some someone else can full themselves up with an oversize drink. I really don't care how much the next guy drinks, but I do care if his over indulgence is going to cost me money, which is does. How many people in the US are classified as disabled because of weight related problems and who pays for the, us our tax dollars. Freedom of choice is what we stand for, but not when your freedom takes away my freedom to keep the money I worked hard for.